A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

. . . each North Carolina public school to offer 31 separate bathrooms to accommodate all of his Sex-of-the-Month Clubbers, he opened up the Can of Worms with which Bugs Bunny fiddles during MY BUNNY LIES OVER THE SEA. This story takes place in that mixed up portion of Britain which nixed Brexit. Bugs calls the Scotchguards on the carpet for skirting their congenital conditions. Adding insult to injury, these bearded belles insist upon wailing into windbags likely to be harboring lethal doses of malign microbes. On top of that, they're prone to fritter away all their time puttering around a playing field set up as a Rapist's Paradise, with 18 undefended holes ripe for attacking. Whereas baseball has nine guys available to catch balls, with hockey and soccer employing goalies to swat orbs away, as football and basketball rely on the entire team to do the same thing, the Scotch are shooting fish in a bucket, using up to a dozen specialty sticks to accomplish what Bryce Harper does with one, or LeBron James manages to do with his bare hands (that is, score). Nevertheless, Bugs Bunny's Scot antagonist thinks he's a Big Man here every time he's able to cram his dimpled egg into a poor, defenseless opening.

Chuck Jones' 'My Bunny Lies Over the Sea' is an odd cartoon due to its setting and its premise. That easily missed left turn at Albuquerque somehow finds Bugs Bunny arriving in Scotland instead of Los Angeles. Here he encounters a fiery red haired Scotsman (a sort of Scottish Yosemite Sam but with bagpipes instead of shooting irons) who he accidentally offends in the best gag of the cartoon. From here, however, 'My Bunny…' slows down considerably as the unusual plot point of a golf tournament is introduced. The golf course is not an ideal setting for Bugs' heckling and the rest of the script attempts to find a way around this self imposed obstacle. The excellent and fast paced Tom and Jerry cartoon 'Tee for Two' showed that the golf course is a rich source of comedy material but sadly 'My Bunny…' struggles to tap into it, resorting to predictable jokes about digging bigger holes and deliberately misjudging your score. Another problem with the cartoon is the underdeveloped Scotsman character who is basically just a walking stereotype with a terrible accent (As you can probably imagine, I'm not a big Speedy Gonzales fan!). He's not fun to be with for the audience or Bugs, who has little to work with. 'My Bunny Lies Over the Sea' is an altogether weak effort, even robbed of the traditional cartoon brightness by its realistically dingy Scottish setting.

Bugs Bunny takes another one of his famous wrong turns and ends up in Scotland, where he mistakes MacRory the Scotsman playing the bagpipes as a monster attacking an old woman and promptly destroys said bagpipes thus infuriating MacRory who challenges Bugs to a game of golf in this Chuck Jones Directed and Michael Maltese written Looney Tunes short. I'm somewhat dissapointed with this short, not because it's bad in any way, just because when I usually catch this writer/director team (either together or on their own), I'm treated to something very special and this short let me down. This cartoon is the eleventh short on disk 1 of the 'Loony Tunes Golden Collection'. My Grade: B-

As usual, Bugs Bunny gets hopelessly lost when tunneling to his latest vacation (the La Brea tar pits). This time he ends up in Scotland and mistakes a (stereo)typical 'Scotsman' playing the bagpipes for an old lady being mauled by a monster. Bugs promptly jumps to her rescue and smashes the pipes to tiny little bits. Naturally the Scotsman (named MacRory and a thinly disguised Yosemite Sam)gets very angry at the smashing of said beloved pipes and, instead of a duel, challenges Bugs to a rather unfunny game of golf. Bugs does his usual outsmarting and nasty tricks but none are really too imaginative or clever. We've seen Bugs to better than this.